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Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-37

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    paper for the following dates, to-wit; January 7.Li. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circu­lated on each of the dates above named. __________s/ Carl Woodbury_______________________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of January. 1951. __________s/ Neola Gierhart_____________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission Expires April 14, 1954. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 450 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 4 OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCE N0.440 ENTITLED; "AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE CREATING STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT N0.100-2; PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF DESIGNATED STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS THEREIN; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ACCORDING TO BENEFITS TO DEFRAY THE STATED ENTIRE COST THEREOF; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE REPORTING OF THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS; PROVIDING FOR FILING OF SAID ROLL WITH CITY CLERK; PROVIDING A TIME AND PLACE TO REVIEW SAID ASSESSMENTS AND NOTIFICATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE NOTIFICATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE CORRECTION AND/OR CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF SAID ROLL THEREAT OR THEREAFTER; PROVIDING FOR THE INDORSE­MENT ON SAID ROLL OF SAID CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL; PROVIDING FOR THE DELIVERY OF SAID APPROVED ROLL TO THE EX-OFFICIO CITY ASSESSOR; PROVIDING THAT SAID ASSESSMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE A LIEN; PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF PAYING SAID ASSESSMENTS AND THE INTEREST THEREON; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF SAID ASSESSMENTS; DI­RECTING THE NOTIFICATION BY MAIL WHEN AND WHERE SAID ASSESSMENT IS DUE AND PAYABLE; RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING ALL ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN TOWARD IMPROVING SAID STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS IN SAID DIS­TRICT, TOWARDS ITS CREATION AND TOWARD LEVYING AND EFFECTING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 4 of Emergency Ordinance No. 440 is hereby amended to read as follows: That the entire cost and expense of making said improvements, including all incidental expenses which may be legally included in the sums assessed, including, without limiting the generality of the fore­going, the cost of surveys, plans, assessments, the cost of construction, and the fees and compensation pro­perly charged in the work of making special assessments, shall be defrayed by special assessments made ac- cording to the benefits against the owners and the assessable lots, premises and property specially bene­fited by such improvements and included within said District. The entire cost and expense of making said improvements are deemed to be $243,105.00 and the total of the special assessments so levied shall be in that amount. Section 2. That the County Assessor of the County of Clark, State of Nevada, the acting Ex-of- ficio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, shall prepare, and is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to make a new assessment roll based upon the revised amount of the entire cost and expense in the manner pro- vided by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and shall assess each lot and parcel of land em­braced within Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-2, such relative portion of the whole sum to be levied in said district, as shall be proportionate to the estimated benefit resulting to such lot or par­cel of land from the improvement. Section 3. That when said Ex-officio City Assessor shall have completed the assessments, he shall report the same to the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas. Such report shall be signed by him and made in the form of a certificate endorse in the assessment roll, which certificate shall be in the form prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas. Section 4. That after said special assessment roll shall have been prepared and reported to the Board, it shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk and numbered. Section 5. That before said special assessment roll is adopted and confirmed by said Board, any person objecting to the assessment may file his objection thereto with the City Clerk on or before Wednes­day, the 28th day of February, 1951, at 3:30 o'clock, P.M., at the City Hall in said City, and said time and place are hereby fixed as the time and place when and where said Board and said County Assessor and ex-of­ficio City Assessor will meet to hear and consider objections to said special assessment roll and to review said assessment. Section 6. That after filing said special assessment roll with the City Clerk, she shall publish notice of the time said Board and said Ex-officio City Assessor will meet to review the assessments for at least two weeks in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in said City of Las Vegas every day each week except Saturday, by fourteen insertions therein. Said notice shall be in the form prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas. Section 7. That all by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, or parts of by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, in conflict with this Ordinance, are hereby repealed. Section 8. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inadequate to meet the present and future needs of the City and its inhabitants and that it is necessary immediately to raise funds to improve said streets, therefore, it is hereby declared that an emergency exists, and that this Ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. Section 9. That the City Clerk and the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Ve­gas, shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immediately following its final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a daily newspaper published in said City, and this ordinance shall become effective immediately following the second publication hereof. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED THIS 7th day of February, 1951. s/ E.W. Cragin_________________________ Mayor (SEAL) Attest: s/ Shirley Ballinger City Clerk